2 ‘militants’ held in Dhaka

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today arrested two alleged activists of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam in Sadarghat area of Dhaka.

The arrestees were identified as Abu Saleh Imu, 23, and Saif, 32, both are activists of Ansar Al Islam’s publicity wing, said Muhammad Mohiuddin Faruqe, company commander of Rab-2.

They were arrested after they arrived at the capital from Barishal, he said.

Imu was an admin of the outfit’s two Facebook pages “Ummah” and “Ibada”, from which they used to make different threats, and Saif was his associate, the Rab official said.

Also, Saif is an accused in a case filed for taking two female activists of the banned outfit to Barishal who were later arrested by Rab, he also said.

The law enforcers also recovered inciting leaflets, books, multimedia equipment including those for video making and dubbing, and other materials for publicity from their possession, the official added.